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Driving Flexibility and Cost Savings With Modular Cutting Assemblies Exploring Alternatives to Inflexible Purpose-built Production Equipment

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

July 21, 2024, ... uses a modular machine to cut an elastomer material with 0-tension unwind. The machine slits the material to width, then rotary die-cuts it within three thousandths of an inch of accuracy. Unlock the ...

Channeled Resources Group Appoints Al Berry to Release Liner Ambassador

(News | New Products)

July 15, 2024, Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading manufacturer of release liners, blank shipping labels, and pressure-sensitive roll label stock Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading ...

Innovating Safety Child-Resistant Stand-Up Pouches that Meet Sustainability Goals

(Bag Pouch)

July 07, 2024, ... Child-resistant technology was implemented within a sustainability framework, ensuring that the packaging materials are engineered to be recyclable wherever possible*, which contributes to a smaller environmental ...

Flexible Packaging — In a Constant Cycle of Evolution

(Flexpack)

June 16, 2024, Just when we think flexible packaging films have reached a milestone of innovation, technology kicks things up another notch. By Rob Tiller, Managing Director, PennPac Just when we think flexible ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 09, 2024, Thin flexible substrates of paper, film and foil are often modified, manipulated, coated or combined with other substrates, adhesives or chemical blends By Tom Kerchiss, Chairman, RK PrintCoat Instruments ...

Static Gets Worse at Higher Line Speeds: Keys Toward Maintaining Good Static Control

(Surface Prep)

May 12, 2024, ... the charge levels to avoid these problems. Think about one of your most productive lines. Profits would be even better if we could just increase the line speed by 20 percent. What do we need to do to ...

Web Guide 101

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

April 24, 2024, ... are fixed to the machine or floor — think of these as guiding to a fixed point in space. Proper web geometry is critical for these to work properly (see Diagram A), and they always include a shifting exiting ...

BioEmitter®- Keeping Corrosion and Rust at Bay in Enclosed Spaces

(News | New Products)

April 15, 2024, ... is environmental responsibility. This commitment is especially demonstrated through the company’s expanding portfolio of sustainable products. Within this range of environmentally-responsible solutions ...

SEI integrates Vetaphone on new Labelmaster KyoJet

(News | New Products)

April 14, 2024, ... is his use of the Vetaphone corona units under reduced power to clean paper webs for better gloss effects.  It’s this type of lateral thinking that sets Labelit apart from its competitors and lays firm ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2024, ... tissue to dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction (CD) strength issues. When I worked ...

Recyclability & Circularity Consumers Support Sustainable Brand Packaging

(Print)

April 08, 2024, ...  Expanding the Role of Inks When we think about circularity in packaging design, we often go straight to material substrate redesign, but we must not underestimate the role of inks and coatings. It ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Converting Perspectives)

April 08, 2024, ... dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction(CD) strength issues. When I worked at a nonwovens ...

FACER’s Managing Director Discusses Future of Cartonboard Packaging

(News | New Products)

April 01, 2024, ... to the future with cartonboard solutions. The traditional fiber-based carton has enjoyed something of a resurgence in recent years, but this is no nostalgia act – today’s cartons can be creative, precision-engineered ...

A New Era in Sustainable Packaging

(News | New Products)

March 26, 2024, ... a certain threshold, equivalent to only a trace amount in the entire film. The film also undergoes testing in an in-house laboratory and its composting chamber to see if the film will break down within ...

Pressure on Paper Packaging Converters

(Flexpack)

March 24, 2024, ... lie. The World Bank predicts that without drastic actions, global waste will increase to 3.4 billion metric tons by 20501 — an increase of 70 percent from today. And while we think about paper packaging ...

Poka launches Connected Worker application to integrate Apple Vision Pro for immersive frontline worker support

(News | New Products)

March 20, 2024, ... visual desktop that can overlay Poka application windows without obstructing people or the busy shop floor. For example, the Factory Feed or Analytics Dashboards can be opened and within view for quick ...

FPA: The State of the U.S. Flexible Packaging Industry

(Print)

March 10, 2024, ... and resins accounted for the largest spend for converters with the two categories making up over two-thirds of material purchases — films are 47 percent; resins are 23 percent. Within films, polyethylene ...

The Importance of Ink Troubleshooting on Press

(News | New Products)

February 29, 2024, ... is another common problem with energy curable printing. Using an excess volume of ink can cause misting, so printers should run a thinner ink film with a thicker ink to achieve their desired ink density ...

Aptar - Food Protection Enters Exclusive Partnership with Halopack to Launch Recyclable, Fiber-based Tray System in North America

(News | New Products)

February 27, 2024, ... 10-12. Visit booth #1270 to learn more. * APTAR HALOPACK tray systems are constructed with FSC-certified cardboard. ** As evaluated for recyclability within the paper industry by PTS Fibre Solutions. ...

ISRA VISION Honored for Outstanding Supplier Performance in Battery Component Manufacturing

(News | New Products)

February 18, 2024, ... with immediate feedback on the production process and material quality. At Zijiang, the system is used to inspect aluminum-coated plastic films. These are needed, among other things, in the production ...